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The importance of data privacy rights will be marked at a weeklong series of events this month. Alexander White, the Privacy Commissioner, said the events were organised to coincide with Data Protection Day next Friday. Mr White said: “We have create...

An historic medal close to Bermuda’s long fight to secure women the right to vote has been auctioned for an “excellent” price in the UK. The silver medal of freedom fighter Frances Outerbridge, dated 1912, fetched ₤13,400 — about $18,370 — at Stroud...

Activists yesterday remembered the life and example of hero anti-apartheid campaigner Desmond Tutu on the steps of the Anglican Cathedral in Hamilton. The gathering to commemorate the South African activist and Anglican Archbishop was called by activ...

Church leaders and human rights activists yesterday paid tribute to South African churchman Desmond Tutu, a Nobel peace prize-winning anti-apartheid activist. The retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town died last Sunday in a nursing home in the cit...

Bermuda joined the rest of the world today to celebrate Human Rights Day. The event at City Hall in Hamilton, organised by the Human Rights Commission, Social Justice Bermuda, Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda and Imagine Bermuda, highlighted the ...

A Bill designed to strengthen Bermuda’s human rights laws and promote equality was yesterday tabled in the House of Assembly by the One Bermuda Alliance. The proposed legislation would create an Equality Council at the Human Rights Commission which ...

The police commanders who led the December 2, 2016 operation to gain access to Parliament chose a tactic which they were told that morning could result in injuries to the public, including some seniors, and officers. An e-mail, released to The Royal ...

The head of the independent Police Complaints Authority “seriously” considered “bailing” after the Government failed to hire a lawyer to represent the committee when it was sued by protesters. Chairman Jeffrey Elkinson told fellow authority members i...

Secrecy still surrounds the decision-making that led to a payout of almost a quarter of a million dollars from the public purse to 28 people who protested outside Parliament on December 2, 2016, and their lawyers. Five years on from the infamous clas...

Deborah Brown, mother of OBA MP Nandi Outerbridge: “I saw the protesters standing in the front lines shoving Nandi in the chest with their hands and arms … They were shoving her and preventing her from walking through the crowd and towards the ga...

The Government is still working towards a 2020 Throne Speech pledge to extend an international convention on disabilities to the island. Tinee Furbert, the Minister of Social Development and Seniors, told the House of Assembly on Friday that the Mini...

The fifth anniversary of the December 2, 2016 parliamentary protest falls a week today – and The Royal Gazette will mark the occasion with in-depth coverage of the infamous event. That flashpoint in Bermuda’s history, when demonstrators blocked MPs f...